Quotes about writ
writing plot hard
It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard. David Mamet
writing play long
A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others.
writing thinking secret
I tend to write a lot, which I think is the secret to being prolific.
writing thinking play
Anyone can write five people trapped in a snowstorm. The question is how you get them into the snowstorm. It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience. To think of a plot that is, as Aristotle says, surprising and yet inevitable, is a lot, lot, lot of work.
writing theatre classroom
The audience will teach you how to act and the audience will teach you how to write and to direct. The classroom will teach you how to obey, and obedience in the theatre will get you nowhere. It’s a soothing falsity.
writing fighting thinking
I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing.
writing illustration stories
Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last. Dav Pilkey
writing thinking hands
When you have that first flash of what you think is going to be a great idea-from the mouth, from the hands-that's an amazing feeling. I don't think anything's quite as good as that. Daryl Hall
writing insanity want
The process of writing and directing drives you to such extremes that it's natural to feel an affinity with insanity. I approach that madness as something dangerous, and I'm afraid, but also I want to go to it, to see what's there, to embrace it. I don't know why, but I'm drawn. Dario Argento
writing
Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.
writing want one-thing
One thing that I don't ever want to do is write something I don't love. Danielle Trussoni
writing angel discipline
Since the Middle Ages, people have been writing about angels. Angelology was actually at one point a scholastic discipline.
writing my-favorite pastime
My favorite pastime is to write. Danny Bonaduce
writing done homework
Writing an op-ed feels like I'm taking the SAT. It's so hard. It feels like homework. And if it feels like homework, it just doesn't get done. Daniel Alarcon
writing language states
I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
writing thinking paper
I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.
writing thinking discipline
I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.
writing opposites practice
I do keep a tiny little journal in which I write passages that I read and want to hold on to. This practice is sort of the opposite of Twitter. Dani Shapiro
writing garbage-cans house
My journals were a clearing house - a garbage can. Once I was writing seriously, I understood that this was the stuff that didn't belong in my work.
writing world computer
The Internet and all its lures are much, much harder than anything I've ever encountered. If you're writing on a computer, the very instrument you're writing on is already tainted by the world out there in all its permutations.
writing thinking feelings
When I was writing my first novel, I smoked cigarettes. And when I think about what it was like to smoke, I remember exactly the feeling of sitting in front of my big old computer in that little room where I wrote my first novel.
writing thinking mind
Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction is being able to think about that.
writing alive wells
I never feel so alive as when I'm writing and the work is going well.
writing inspire way
Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find it gets in the way.
writing practice sitting-down
Everything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.
writing persistence rejection
The writing life requires courage, patience, persistence, empathy, openness, and the ability to deal with rejection. It requires the willingness to be alone with oneself. To be gentle with oneself. To look at the world without blinders on. To observe and withstand what one sees. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks. To be willing to fail - not just once, but again and again, over the course of a lifetime.
writing ongoing needs
Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write
writing simple answers
How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'
writing way window
Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.
writing decision lasts
Life is filled with potential that is truly unfathomable. At last we are coming to see the enormous power it possesses. That is why we must never write anyone off. In particular, we mustn’t put boundaries on our own potential. In most cases, our so-called limitations are nothing more than our own decision to limit ourselves. Daisaku Ikeda
writing actors process
Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes. Condola Rashad
writing people trying
Sometimes people decide to write reports even though they haven't been to Guantanamo . And so I would just suggest that people look at some of the work that's been done by people who have been there. But that's not to say that we will not be very glad at the day that conditions permit the closure of Guantanamo and the trying of its inhabitants or for their release. Condoleezza Rice
writing thinking role-models
I know that people look at my life and ask, "How can I achieve some of those things?" So, I suppose in that sense, yes, I'm a role model. But I try to think of myself more as a mentor, as somebody who I hope young people feel comfortable approaching or writing to.